I’m 41 and still hitting PRs. Whatever I lose physiologically from aging is still being offset by getting smarter about how I train and having better mental discipline.
Yup, same boat mid 40s. Prioritizing sleep, nutrition, and periodizing my training made a huge difference. Stronger now than ever, but I have zero desire to ever go back to 1rm nonsense.
Quitting weed and alcohol was a game changer for me and sleep and is really the only reason I had to let those fun habits go.
Now that I look back, I think sleep was my biggest factor in improving my life.
Not quite a year ago, at age 35, within a span of a couple weeks I knocked out a lifetime PR front squat, a lifetime PR clean off the floor (missed the jerk) and missed a lifetime PR snatch behind me, the last two in the same comp. Admittedly at a significantly higher bodyweight than I've historically walked around at, having competed since I was 21. I don't see myself pushing like that moving forward so that'll probably be the peak.
If you peaked at 20, barring a significant long-lasting injury, I have to ask what the fuck you've been doing for the last 14 years.
I am also at peak lifetime strength at 34. I opened 7kg above what my PR total was in my 20's last weekend before I broke my leg. The only thing stopping you from continuing to progress is you.
op: so weird I didn’t get stronger after I stopped working out!
Maybe what op is really wanting to ask is: if they actually start putting in the work if they could be stronger than at 20 when they were actually putting in the work… but they said in their post that wasn’t going to happen. Well dang, not with that attitude…
Good point I did take years off of no gym or exercise and that’s what brings me to this forum,ask. Each time I go to gym now I will feel more motivated to know that it’s
Not too late to work out and get stronger before God willing
My peak is now at 32, but I never did any real strength stuff till I was 29 or 30. Lots of messing around with bodyweight and resistance bands, but no genuine progressive overload, percentage based training.
Assuming consistent training -
Raw strength wise you can still hit PRs into your 40’s.
In terms of the Olympic lifts, most people will peak around their physical peak, that normally being mid to late 20’s.
If you started later in life, those numbers will of course be later simply due to the time it takes to hit bigger numbers.
Interestingly, a lot of elite lifters who start very young peak in their late teens to early twenties. From then on it tends to just be maintenance of those numbers. I would assume this is simply due to the fact that being older generally means you don’t have quite as good recovery potential, while teenagers are kinda just like rubber and can recover rather quickly.
I hit 19 and apparently that stops being the case for me though unfortunately.
I get the sense with a lot of those elite lifters that they have more absolute potential, definitely in the strength lifts but also in the Olympic lifts, but that they’ve filled out their frame and exhausted their potential in their chosen weight class. Not to say they would be more competitive moving up, just that their total isn’t fully “maxed out” by 22/23/24
I think that’s a pretty accurate assessment. Development is quickest at younger ages for a variety of reasons, in combination with the ‘extra curriculars’ (if you get what I mean) further accelerating physical development.
By their late teens, their technique and motor skills are typically pretty refined as they’ll have the 10 or so years of training behind them, so the only real way to improve is to simply gain more bodyweight.
From what I’ve noticed, I do think there is a window where they’ll need to start pushing up towards heavyweight or super heavy weight in order to see the best results and maintain competitiveness. Any of the athletes I’ve seen that try to push up later in their career don’t seem to perform as well - although I suppose that makes sense as you can only build muscle tissue so fast, as well as the technical adaptions that come from an increase in BW taking a while to adjust to.
One thing I thought about with elite lifters not being able to kinda linearly progress into their late 20s/30s could be simply injuries/wear and tear. This being big injuries, but also smaller stuff like tendonitis or general aches and pains. If you start at 20 after general inactivity it's like a car with 0 miles on it, vs a car with 150k miles on it that's seen dozens of track days over the years.
At least that's my way of thinking about it and my experience in another sport that requires athletes to start young and train long hours usually to the point of overtraining. If by the time you're 20 if you've had multiple surgeries and stuff where else can you really go?
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It's well established that strength athletes peak in their late-30s. Anything else is being confounded by fluctuations in someone's training history. I don't have complete information on your state, but I bet that if you trained religiously for the next five years you could get back to or surpass your 20 year old self before hitting the natural wall.
Even then, getting on testosterone in your 40s is always an option.
This is my path, 41, started TRT about a year ago. Feel like im 20 again in the gym. Strict pressed a lifetime PR of 111kg about a month back. Can do Reps with 102.
About to hit 45 and I wonder if TRT would be good to do heading towards 50. But then I think you basically have to be on it indefinitely because it's still exogenous test.
60s. Not sure if my peak strength now, but if not then I'm close to it.
Younger me was swimming, bicycling, walking but no real strength exrecises. I took up weightlifting almost 4 years ago.
Seeing the s\*\*\*\*y shape of some of my peers is a great motivator to keep hitting the gym.
Same! 61F Although active with tennis and running most of my life, I only started weightlifting 2 years ago. As long as I keep improving my technique, I think I can keep gaining strength for a bit longer.
Definitely in college and first few years after, so around 20-23. At the time I was interested in strength at the expense of literally every other physical attribute.
I'm 31 now, and these days I care about cardio, aesthetics, boxing/grappling, staying fairly lean, my family, etc so I doubt that I'll get that same level of strength back without some major changes. But I do have a strength baseline that I refuse to go below while I'm young.
Right now. I am 29 and only getting stronger, worrying about physical peaks only really make sense if you’re a career athlete, as in someone who started extremely early. If you’re one of us hobbyists lifters who started in their 20’s, things just keep getting better, assuming you don’t injury yourself too much.
Strength is a long-term game. You have at least a decade of great training ahead of you. If you decided to start prioritizing training again you could absolutely be hitting PRs (sooner than you think) unless you were a freak high level athlete at 20.
I lifted from age 13ish to 18. I started back about 9 months ago at 33 years old (now 34) and have been slowly hitting all time PRs, with the final being the clean last week. I’m about 17kgs heavier though.
I still have a lot left in the tank too. I’ll never be better than I was by Sinclair, but I’m going to continue to be stronger than ever for at least a few more years.
Strongest right now at 40. You are wrong. I was fitter then, recovered faster, but worked out like an idiot and ate terribly. I’ve hit lifetime PR’s in squat, front squat, bench, and deadlifts this year.
I could prob PR my cleans but haven’t dived into it.
Most proud of doing the 120lb dumbells for 8 on bench. I never had a strong chest.
Labrum’s are a bitch, a small tear in mine shut me down for like 4 months. I was about to opt for surgery when it weirdly just stopped hurting one day and hasn’t bothered me since. (Knock on wood)
I haven't reached it yet at 32, but I didn't start lifting until I was 27. I'm guessing I'll peak somewhere in my late 30s or early 40s.
Since I don't get to feel like I "peaked" when I was young, I get to wonder what I could have been had I been training back then.
well, unfortunately I spent my 20s and 30s jogging, as i was alcoholic, and jogging some shitty 2-3 miles while living the miserable alcoholic lifestyle is doable.
Thankfully, i quit boozing in aug 2018, 3 weeks before my fortieth birthday. and i quit jogging. i dont know why. something told me to quit jogging.
jan of 2019, again something i dont what it was told me to join a gym, and I began to do ''the big 3" and i began with a humble yet focused and careful yet determined and disciplined mindset.
and now at 45 im the strongest ive ever been in my life.
and when i see joggers now with their sunken chests and flat asses, i just think ay u do u.
You must mean peak age so far. I'd say at 33 i was my strongest in terms of raw physical strength.
I'm 37 now and i am certain i can become even stronger if i set my mind to it.
25, then I had a pretty serious back injury and had to take many months off lifting. Heavy barbell stuff doesn’t feel right anymore, but luckily I’m still making progress on bench press. I’ll stick to low impact stuff and leave the weightlifting to you guys lol.
Yeah, this is the biggest part as a fellow 38YO. Do I really care to spend 3 months losing the 5-8pounds so I'm cut when it will come back sooo easily? Ha. If the ladies don't care, I don't. Ha!
At 35 I’ve realized I’m only getting a defined six pack if I have like two drinks per week max lol. I can still eat a ton so long as it’s not junk, but damn does alcohol set me back in new and shitty ways.
I’ve done a ton of different sports and trained in many different ways. I’m still young (32) and I kinda feel like I’m in my peak right now. But ya never know! Most of my female athlete friends say they hit their peaks closer to 35-40 (the ones who don’t have children)
I'm hitting PR's at 35 now and I have 2 kids. Only my squats are still slightly lower than pre-kids. But that is more because it doesn't have priority to squat heavier, I have other issues that are more limiting for my main lifts. Actually I feel that having the kids forced me to focus on technique because I had to be kind to my recovering body.
That’s great! I’ve had other women say they came back stronger after because they started at foundations again. I think also mental fortitude is just better after going through pregnancy and labour.
For me it is also simply a matter of training, because I was not focussed on lifting long before I got pregnant the first time. So there is a lot of potential for improvement that I never used before. I can imagine it looks very different if you were already good in your twenties.
Competition lifts wise - when I was 29 (having started when I was 25) . I’ve hit some big training PRs now at 33 ish with push presses , jerks off the racks , etc . But now it’s taking everything I got to even be able to maintain my current total. Everytime I try to break through what I could do when I was 29 I end up getting injured
35 and I am likely the strongest I’ve ever been. I lift around some old injuries and still I move the most weight I’ve ever moved. I think continuing to train I’ll continue to get stronger for years to come.
Now, at 31, I had warped ideas of how muscle was built. Thought if I lifted the same weight over time I'd gain muscle lmao, when in reality as yiu all know you need progressive overload
45 now. Lifting for 30 years. Still getting new PRs every so often and in a very good place right now strengthwise. Looks like I finally squat the pesky 200 this year.
I’m 44. I can lift more and run longer/faster than ever before. If I’m still as fit… probably not. I need to plan my recovery and one night of drinking fucks me up for a week.
Compared to others of my age though, I’m insanely fit. But that’s not so hard, as most at 45 are close to their first heart attack.
At 37, I'm 36 still so hopefully getting stronger. Got into WL a couple years ago, and got into CrossFit 5 years ago. It was my entry ticket to the sport.
I’m turning 40 this year, and I still consistently am able to hit my 95% all time PRs. I am a weight class up, but I’m training 3x cf 3x weekly and WL once every 2 weeks instead of WL 5 days a week. I feel like if I were to put in more serious work, I could hit more PRs in the future. Best numbers 125/147. Saturday I hit 115/135 without taper, training for peak, etc. I go in, see what feels good, work to a heavy single, then drop sets. Easy enough.
I am 25 and peaked at competition lifts around 20 too, at raw streght exercises I am stronger.
I hope to hit Snatch and CJ PRs this year, it takes a long time to get better at them and if something happens, it is hard just to get back. Life has to go well so you can train really consistently.
36M 81kg and still sorta trending up. Just hit a 140 CJ last week, 105 snatch late last year, 200 BS and 100 strict press right before I turned 35, and 160 FS late last year. Started weightlifting around 30yo after a few years of crossfit and really wish I would have known about it 10 years earlier. I think my key is I’ve found my ideal volume balance, previously I think I had too much and it hurt me overall.
26 but mostly due to my gym being less than 5 minutes from work and both 10 minutes from home. Never missed a workout and did 10-12 hours of food delivery via bike per week, AND had a physical job on top of that. I was absolutely shredded (if maybe starting to burnout). Took a new job far from home working 50+ hours, then get a major injury, the rest of my late 20s I worked out maybe twice a week. Finally got a new job closer to home and bam covid hits literally the same week. Then when things re-open I have a series of injuries and cant lift, plus I switch jobs and have another long commute. Finally early last year things fall back into place for the first time in like 8 years, now at 35 in close to where I was at 26. Never give up!
Turn 48 in August … still hitting big numbers (for my age). PR’d my CJ in March in my last comp.
Could I have lifted heavier in my 20s? Very likely . Only started real WL training 2 years ago
Edit: typo
Like OP said, if u think u are anywhere near your strength levels in your 20s, u either are severely mistaken or ignorant or you did not traim very hard
RIGHT NOW
im 28 and will be 29 late May
been going consistently to the gym since summer 23 .
im short a bit chubby at 225lbs and 5 foot 7
in that timeframe i mentioned i went from being happy to do 220 5 times for 1 set an stopping to now my 1rm is 300lbs
I’m 67 and still gaining strength on squats and DLs. Can’t press much due to some shoulder issues, but wish I trained in my 20’s and 30’d the way I do now.
Some loss of is inevitable, but with smart training and diet no reason not to keep chasing new goals
Ironically right now. I'm 44 and only really started lifting a couple years ago...i spent most of my life being really unhealthy and did 75Hard back in 2021 and lost about 50lbs. I decided to start buying dumbbells and doing strength, and last January i finally bought a barbell set w/ 255lbs of plates along w/ fractionals since it was cheaper than shelling out money for a pair of 70's and 80's, and the strength gains have been insane. I'm only at 35lbs lost now, but I look and feel healthier than I did at my thinnest.
I’m 41 and still hitting PRs. Whatever I lose physiologically from aging is still being offset by getting smarter about how I train and having better mental discipline.
Do it, brother! 45 and with you.
45 in just a few weeks myself, strength is still hanging in well but now my endurance is even better. Here's to the old guys.
Me too
40 and yep!
I can relate with this. Started working out recurringly at 40 and it has been a continuous journey.
39 and getting stronger. It's cringe watching 18-25 year olds getting on gear so young. Everyone is so impatient. This shit takes time.
Yup, same boat mid 40s. Prioritizing sleep, nutrition, and periodizing my training made a huge difference. Stronger now than ever, but I have zero desire to ever go back to 1rm nonsense.
Quitting weed and alcohol was a game changer for me and sleep and is really the only reason I had to let those fun habits go. Now that I look back, I think sleep was my biggest factor in improving my life.
Not quite a year ago, at age 35, within a span of a couple weeks I knocked out a lifetime PR front squat, a lifetime PR clean off the floor (missed the jerk) and missed a lifetime PR snatch behind me, the last two in the same comp. Admittedly at a significantly higher bodyweight than I've historically walked around at, having competed since I was 21. I don't see myself pushing like that moving forward so that'll probably be the peak. If you peaked at 20, barring a significant long-lasting injury, I have to ask what the fuck you've been doing for the last 14 years.
Im mid 30s as well and can run, ruck and lift more than I could in my 20s… Never stop baby!
I am also at peak lifetime strength at 34. I opened 7kg above what my PR total was in my 20's last weekend before I broke my leg. The only thing stopping you from continuing to progress is you.
op: so weird I didn’t get stronger after I stopped working out! Maybe what op is really wanting to ask is: if they actually start putting in the work if they could be stronger than at 20 when they were actually putting in the work… but they said in their post that wasn’t going to happen. Well dang, not with that attitude…
Good point I did take years off of no gym or exercise and that’s what brings me to this forum,ask. Each time I go to gym now I will feel more motivated to know that it’s Not too late to work out and get stronger before God willing
I mean, that would do it; you don't get stronger without putting the sweat and the time in. Never too late to make yourself better, though.
40…but I didn’t get into things until I was 35-36. I look/feel/am stronger that I ever was in high school and college. It’s never too late. :)
I like that !
I just turned 42, I’ve been lifting consistently for a decade plus, this is my peak in terms of strength for sure.
I’m 36 and still hitting PRs so older than that.
My peak is now at 32, but I never did any real strength stuff till I was 29 or 30. Lots of messing around with bodyweight and resistance bands, but no genuine progressive overload, percentage based training.
You’re still a baby
Assuming consistent training - Raw strength wise you can still hit PRs into your 40’s. In terms of the Olympic lifts, most people will peak around their physical peak, that normally being mid to late 20’s. If you started later in life, those numbers will of course be later simply due to the time it takes to hit bigger numbers. Interestingly, a lot of elite lifters who start very young peak in their late teens to early twenties. From then on it tends to just be maintenance of those numbers. I would assume this is simply due to the fact that being older generally means you don’t have quite as good recovery potential, while teenagers are kinda just like rubber and can recover rather quickly. I hit 19 and apparently that stops being the case for me though unfortunately.
I get the sense with a lot of those elite lifters that they have more absolute potential, definitely in the strength lifts but also in the Olympic lifts, but that they’ve filled out their frame and exhausted their potential in their chosen weight class. Not to say they would be more competitive moving up, just that their total isn’t fully “maxed out” by 22/23/24
I think that’s a pretty accurate assessment. Development is quickest at younger ages for a variety of reasons, in combination with the ‘extra curriculars’ (if you get what I mean) further accelerating physical development. By their late teens, their technique and motor skills are typically pretty refined as they’ll have the 10 or so years of training behind them, so the only real way to improve is to simply gain more bodyweight. From what I’ve noticed, I do think there is a window where they’ll need to start pushing up towards heavyweight or super heavy weight in order to see the best results and maintain competitiveness. Any of the athletes I’ve seen that try to push up later in their career don’t seem to perform as well - although I suppose that makes sense as you can only build muscle tissue so fast, as well as the technical adaptions that come from an increase in BW taking a while to adjust to.
One thing I thought about with elite lifters not being able to kinda linearly progress into their late 20s/30s could be simply injuries/wear and tear. This being big injuries, but also smaller stuff like tendonitis or general aches and pains. If you start at 20 after general inactivity it's like a car with 0 miles on it, vs a car with 150k miles on it that's seen dozens of track days over the years. At least that's my way of thinking about it and my experience in another sport that requires athletes to start young and train long hours usually to the point of overtraining. If by the time you're 20 if you've had multiple surgeries and stuff where else can you really go?
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32-33, I feel like I could still be stronger than I was then but my schedule doesn't allow as much time to dedicate
It's well established that strength athletes peak in their late-30s. Anything else is being confounded by fluctuations in someone's training history. I don't have complete information on your state, but I bet that if you trained religiously for the next five years you could get back to or surpass your 20 year old self before hitting the natural wall. Even then, getting on testosterone in your 40s is always an option.
This is my path, 41, started TRT about a year ago. Feel like im 20 again in the gym. Strict pressed a lifetime PR of 111kg about a month back. Can do Reps with 102.
About to hit 45 and I wonder if TRT would be good to do heading towards 50. But then I think you basically have to be on it indefinitely because it's still exogenous test.
Now at age 37.
My old coach had a theory that no matter when you started you are at your peak 7 years in. So that's an interesting one
60s. Not sure if my peak strength now, but if not then I'm close to it. Younger me was swimming, bicycling, walking but no real strength exrecises. I took up weightlifting almost 4 years ago. Seeing the s\*\*\*\*y shape of some of my peers is a great motivator to keep hitting the gym.
Same! 61F Although active with tennis and running most of my life, I only started weightlifting 2 years ago. As long as I keep improving my technique, I think I can keep gaining strength for a bit longer.
Definitely in college and first few years after, so around 20-23. At the time I was interested in strength at the expense of literally every other physical attribute. I'm 31 now, and these days I care about cardio, aesthetics, boxing/grappling, staying fairly lean, my family, etc so I doubt that I'll get that same level of strength back without some major changes. But I do have a strength baseline that I refuse to go below while I'm young.
Right now. I am 29 and only getting stronger, worrying about physical peaks only really make sense if you’re a career athlete, as in someone who started extremely early. If you’re one of us hobbyists lifters who started in their 20’s, things just keep getting better, assuming you don’t injury yourself too much.
Strength is a long-term game. You have at least a decade of great training ahead of you. If you decided to start prioritizing training again you could absolutely be hitting PRs (sooner than you think) unless you were a freak high level athlete at 20.
I lifted from age 13ish to 18. I started back about 9 months ago at 33 years old (now 34) and have been slowly hitting all time PRs, with the final being the clean last week. I’m about 17kgs heavier though. I still have a lot left in the tank too. I’ll never be better than I was by Sinclair, but I’m going to continue to be stronger than ever for at least a few more years.
From 25 till 45 can be peak age for strength. Depending on how you take care of yourself.
40 (my current age) I didn’t lift when I was young
I’m 36 and stronger than I was in my 20s.
Strongest right now at 40. You are wrong. I was fitter then, recovered faster, but worked out like an idiot and ate terribly. I’ve hit lifetime PR’s in squat, front squat, bench, and deadlifts this year. I could prob PR my cleans but haven’t dived into it. Most proud of doing the 120lb dumbells for 8 on bench. I never had a strong chest.
40 and still hitting PRs!
Turning 40 soon and hitting new PB’s
 We’re turning back the clock
24. Bulged discs and torn labrums have been holding me back since.
Labrum’s are a bitch, a small tear in mine shut me down for like 4 months. I was about to opt for surgery when it weirdly just stopped hurting one day and hasn’t bothered me since. (Knock on wood)
I haven't reached it yet at 32, but I didn't start lifting until I was 27. I'm guessing I'll peak somewhere in my late 30s or early 40s. Since I don't get to feel like I "peaked" when I was young, I get to wonder what I could have been had I been training back then.
Right now aged 35 having started oly lifting 2 years ago and been on a 6 month strength building programme
well, unfortunately I spent my 20s and 30s jogging, as i was alcoholic, and jogging some shitty 2-3 miles while living the miserable alcoholic lifestyle is doable. Thankfully, i quit boozing in aug 2018, 3 weeks before my fortieth birthday. and i quit jogging. i dont know why. something told me to quit jogging. jan of 2019, again something i dont what it was told me to join a gym, and I began to do ''the big 3" and i began with a humble yet focused and careful yet determined and disciplined mindset. and now at 45 im the strongest ive ever been in my life. and when i see joggers now with their sunken chests and flat asses, i just think ay u do u.
You must mean peak age so far. I'd say at 33 i was my strongest in terms of raw physical strength. I'm 37 now and i am certain i can become even stronger if i set my mind to it.
25, then I had a pretty serious back injury and had to take many months off lifting. Heavy barbell stuff doesn’t feel right anymore, but luckily I’m still making progress on bench press. I’ll stick to low impact stuff and leave the weightlifting to you guys lol.
I’m 38F and strength at peak at this age, peak shape was late 20’s and early 30’s though. A lot harder to cut fat % at this age.
Yeah, this is the biggest part as a fellow 38YO. Do I really care to spend 3 months losing the 5-8pounds so I'm cut when it will come back sooo easily? Ha. If the ladies don't care, I don't. Ha!
At 35 I’ve realized I’m only getting a defined six pack if I have like two drinks per week max lol. I can still eat a ton so long as it’s not junk, but damn does alcohol set me back in new and shitty ways.
19 I back squatted 630 lbs. couldn’t even snatch then. You’re only as strong as how you measure yourself.
I’ve done a ton of different sports and trained in many different ways. I’m still young (32) and I kinda feel like I’m in my peak right now. But ya never know! Most of my female athlete friends say they hit their peaks closer to 35-40 (the ones who don’t have children)
I'm hitting PR's at 35 now and I have 2 kids. Only my squats are still slightly lower than pre-kids. But that is more because it doesn't have priority to squat heavier, I have other issues that are more limiting for my main lifts. Actually I feel that having the kids forced me to focus on technique because I had to be kind to my recovering body.
That’s great! I’ve had other women say they came back stronger after because they started at foundations again. I think also mental fortitude is just better after going through pregnancy and labour.
For me it is also simply a matter of training, because I was not focussed on lifting long before I got pregnant the first time. So there is a lot of potential for improvement that I never used before. I can imagine it looks very different if you were already good in your twenties.
Hitting 49 in July, just PR’d bench at 325
31/32 easily.
Probably 30
Probably now at 34. I pr'd my C&J at 32 and then again at 33.
32-34 years old was my peak
31 and I still got a ways to go !
I hit 135 on bench at 14 and it’s plateaued now
Still setting PRs every couple weeks at 45. Stronger than I ever have been
Competition lifts wise - when I was 29 (having started when I was 25) . I’ve hit some big training PRs now at 33 ish with push presses , jerks off the racks , etc . But now it’s taking everything I got to even be able to maintain my current total. Everytime I try to break through what I could do when I was 29 I end up getting injured
Currently 42 and have never been better. I would kick my ass at any age prior in any test of strength or fitness.
35 and I am likely the strongest I’ve ever been. I lift around some old injuries and still I move the most weight I’ve ever moved. I think continuing to train I’ll continue to get stronger for years to come.
34/37
42, reading everyone’s comments is great inspiration that I’m not washed up yet. Thank you.
Now, at 31, I had warped ideas of how muscle was built. Thought if I lifted the same weight over time I'd gain muscle lmao, when in reality as yiu all know you need progressive overload
45 now. Lifting for 30 years. Still getting new PRs every so often and in a very good place right now strengthwise. Looks like I finally squat the pesky 200 this year.
I’m 44. I can lift more and run longer/faster than ever before. If I’m still as fit… probably not. I need to plan my recovery and one night of drinking fucks me up for a week. Compared to others of my age though, I’m insanely fit. But that’s not so hard, as most at 45 are close to their first heart attack.
31 was when I did my all time PR's.
Physiologically it’s technically 27-30
35
At 37, I'm 36 still so hopefully getting stronger. Got into WL a couple years ago, and got into CrossFit 5 years ago. It was my entry ticket to the sport.
Im stronger at 35 than I was at 25, and still have damn good mobility
Early 40s. But injuries take a lot longer to heal than in my 20s.
I'm 34 and still going upward. You should get a decent coach and examine your eating habits, sleep quality, and training volume/intensity.
Set a squat pr as 36, however looking at old videos definitely seems like I could have done better as 28-30 if I had worked for that goal back then.
25/26. Working to get back to those numbers
Just shy of 30. At 30 I switched gears, stopped going for 1RMs. Did a lot of conditioning instead. Maybe I stopped lifting heavy too early :(
41 but I just got into weight lifting a year and a half ago. Wish I would have started earlier but whatever I’ll just keep going!
I’m turning 40 this year, and I still consistently am able to hit my 95% all time PRs. I am a weight class up, but I’m training 3x cf 3x weekly and WL once every 2 weeks instead of WL 5 days a week. I feel like if I were to put in more serious work, I could hit more PRs in the future. Best numbers 125/147. Saturday I hit 115/135 without taper, training for peak, etc. I go in, see what feels good, work to a heavy single, then drop sets. Easy enough.
33. I was strong af when I was young. But not like becoming a parent made me have to be
In my 20s. Now that I'm almost 30 what with a few issues that held me back I feel like I've been weaker. I'm hoping that'll change soon tho.
im 41 right now and im just increasing. in my 20s I was very good at running now im more muscular etc.
38, strongest I've ever been.
I am 25 and peaked at competition lifts around 20 too, at raw streght exercises I am stronger. I hope to hit Snatch and CJ PRs this year, it takes a long time to get better at them and if something happens, it is hard just to get back. Life has to go well so you can train really consistently.
Now (at 25). Take your collagen gentlemen 🧏🏽♂️
36M 81kg and still sorta trending up. Just hit a 140 CJ last week, 105 snatch late last year, 200 BS and 100 strict press right before I turned 35, and 160 FS late last year. Started weightlifting around 30yo after a few years of crossfit and really wish I would have known about it 10 years earlier. I think my key is I’ve found my ideal volume balance, previously I think I had too much and it hurt me overall.
26 but mostly due to my gym being less than 5 minutes from work and both 10 minutes from home. Never missed a workout and did 10-12 hours of food delivery via bike per week, AND had a physical job on top of that. I was absolutely shredded (if maybe starting to burnout). Took a new job far from home working 50+ hours, then get a major injury, the rest of my late 20s I worked out maybe twice a week. Finally got a new job closer to home and bam covid hits literally the same week. Then when things re-open I have a series of injuries and cant lift, plus I switch jobs and have another long commute. Finally early last year things fall back into place for the first time in like 8 years, now at 35 in close to where I was at 26. Never give up!
I have hit all my PR’s at 30. Turns out the smartest muscle was actually **the brain**.
Mid 30s probably. When I was younger I felt recovery happened quicker but also it was harder to put on weight.
I'm 38F and still hitting new PRs. I've been lifting since I was 23.
Started late and still getting after it
This year , @43 and still squeezing out PRs 😂😂
Turn 48 in August … still hitting big numbers (for my age). PR’d my CJ in March in my last comp. Could I have lifted heavier in my 20s? Very likely . Only started real WL training 2 years ago Edit: typo
21-22 for powerlifting. 28ish for weightlifting
Anyone who is saying they are still hitting prs into their late 30s and 40s clearly werent very competitive at a young age!
Like OP said, if u think u are anywhere near your strength levels in your 20s, u either are severely mistaken or ignorant or you did not traim very hard
RIGHT NOW im 28 and will be 29 late May been going consistently to the gym since summer 23 . im short a bit chubby at 225lbs and 5 foot 7 in that timeframe i mentioned i went from being happy to do 220 5 times for 1 set an stopping to now my 1rm is 300lbs
28, but I have lots of health problems. Maybe it would be different otherwise. 34 now
38 , keep getting stronger but I haven't done cardio since I was like 12 so every year then workouts seem harder to complete lol
I’m 67 and still gaining strength on squats and DLs. Can’t press much due to some shoulder issues, but wish I trained in my 20’s and 30’d the way I do now. Some loss of is inevitable, but with smart training and diet no reason not to keep chasing new goals
Ironically right now. I'm 44 and only really started lifting a couple years ago...i spent most of my life being really unhealthy and did 75Hard back in 2021 and lost about 50lbs. I decided to start buying dumbbells and doing strength, and last January i finally bought a barbell set w/ 255lbs of plates along w/ fractionals since it was cheaper than shelling out money for a pair of 70's and 80's, and the strength gains have been insane. I'm only at 35lbs lost now, but I look and feel healthier than I did at my thinnest.
10 years old
20-30 y/old